- 1627
Year 1627 was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Monday of the 10-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1627
*July 4 -July 19 -Turkish Abductions : TheMuslim s raidIceland .
*July 22 - The English, under theDuke of Buckingham , invadeRé Island in support of theHuguenot s inLa Rochelle . The invasion does not go well.
*July 27 - Anearthquake destroys the cities ofSan Severo andTorremaggiore in southernItaly .
*September - TheSiege of La Rochelle begins.Undated
* A Dutch ship makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of
South Australia .
* Theaurochs are hunted to extinction, the last being killed by poachers inPoland .
*England places the firstEurope an settlers onBarbados .
* After theFirst Manchu invasion of Korea , theJoseon Dynasty ofKorea becomes atributary state of theManchu s, but still pays respects to theMing Dynasty ofChina . After rejecting a Manchu alteration to the original diplomatic terms in 1636, the Manchus invade again in1637 .
* Blackgun powder is first used inmining , in a mineshaft underBanská Štiavnica ,Slovakia .
* Archduke Ferdinand III of Austria,heir apparent of theHabsburg Monarchy and a future Holy Roman Emperor, already King of Hungary ascends to be king of the religiously troubled Bohemia where his (still living) father's repression of Protestantism had triggered the ongoingThirty Years' War in1618 .Births
*January 25 -Robert Boyle , Irish scientist (d.1691 )
*February 19 -Shivaji , also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosle, founder of the Maratha Empire in western India in 1674 (d.1680 )
*March 27 - SirStephen Fox , English statesman (d.1716 )
*May 29 -Anne, Duchess of Montpensier , French bishop and writer (d.1704 )
*November 29 -John Ray , English biologist (d.1705 )
*"date unknown"
**SirJohn Flavel , English dissenter (d.1691 )
**Philip Fruytiers , Flemish painter (d.1666 )
**Roland Roghman , Dutch painter (d.1692 )
**Turhan Hatice , regent of the Ottoman empire (d.1682 ): "See also ."
Deaths
*February 22 -Olivier van Noort , Dutch navigator (b.1558 )
*March 6 -Krzysztof Zbaraski , Polish statesman (b.1580 )
*April 19 - Sir John Beaumont, English poet (b.1583 )
*May 2 -Lodovico Grossi da Viadana , Italian composer (b.1560 )
*May 24 -Luis de Góngora , Spanish poet (b.1561 )
*June 27 - SirJohn Hayward , English historian (b. c.1560 )
*August 21 -Jacques Mauduit , French composer (b.1557 )
*September 20 -Jan Gruter , Dutch scholar (b.1560 )
*October 28 -Jahangir , Mughal Emperor of India (b.1569 )
*"date unknown"
**Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer , Dutch pirate and buccaneer (b.1583 )
**Thomas Middleton , English playwright (b.1580 )
**Sir John Suckling, English politician (b.1569 ): "See also ."
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